| Main Entry: | plausibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verisimilitude |
Synonyms: |
believability, chance, color, credibility, credibleness, creditability, creditableness, integrity, likelihood, plausibleness, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, soundness, tenability, trustworthiness, validity |
| Main Entry: | credibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believeableness |
Synonyms: |
believability, chance, integrity, likelihood, plausibility, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, soundness, tenability, trustworthiness, validity |
| Notes: | something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness |
Antonyms: |
implausibility, improbability, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | likelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance of something happening |
Synonyms: |
coin flip, direction, even break, fair shake, fifty-fifty, fighting chance, good chance, liability, likeliness, long shot, outside chance, plausibility, possibility, presumption, probability, prospect, reasonableness, shot at, strong possibility, tendency, toss-up, trend |
Antonyms: |
unlikelihood |
| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feasibility, likelihood; chance |
Synonyms: |
achievability, action, attainableness, break, circumstance, contingency, fair shake, fifty-fifty, fling*, fluke, fortuity, happening, hazard, hope, incident, instance, liability, likeliness, occasion, occurrence, odds, opportunity, outside chance, plausibility, play*, potentiality, practicability, prayer*, probability, prospect, risk*, shot*, stab*, toss-up, workableness |
Antonyms: |
impossibility, impossible, unfeasibility, unlikelihood |
| Main Entry: | presumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, hypothesis |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apriorism, assumption, basis, chance, conjecture, grounds, guess, likelihood, opinion, plausibility, posit, postulate, postulation, premise, presupposition, probability, reason, shot, shot in the dark, sneaking suspicion, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, thesis |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | probability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likelihood of something happening |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, chance, chances, conceivability, contingency, credibility, expectation, feasibility, hazard, liability, likeliness, odds, outside chance, plausibility, possibility, practicability, prayer, presumption, promise, prospect, reasonableness, shot, snowball's chance, toss-up |
Antonyms: |
improbability, unlikelihood |
| Main Entry: | verisimilitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authenticity |
Synonyms: |
color, credibility, genuineness, likeliness, likeness, plausibility, realism, resemblance, semblance, show, similarity, virtual reality |
Antonyms: |
falseness, impossibility |
| Main Entry: | believability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verisimilitude |
Synonyms: |
believableness, credibility, credibleness, creditability, creditableness, likelihood, plausibility, plausibleness, validity, validness |
| Main Entry: | credibleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believableness |
Synonyms: |
believability, credibility, creditability, creditableness, plausibility, plausibleness, reliability, reliableness, trustworthiness, validity, validness, verisimilitude |
| Main Entry: | creditability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believability |
Synonyms: |
believableness, credibility, credibleness, creditableness, plausibility, plausibleness, reliability, reliableness, trustworthiness, validity, validness, verisimilitude |